Jama-Everett, Ayize
Entry updated 27 March 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1974- ) US author whose Liminal People sequence – comprising The Liminal People (2011), The Liminal War (2015) and The Entropy of Bones (2015) – is set in an Alternate World where a group of young men and women, gifted with Superpowers, attempt to survive and thrive in venues depicted with Graphic Novel-like speedlines. The action is unrelenting, the tone surprisingly and lucidly light, and the powers on display – one protagonist can heal diseases; another's Telekinesis is used more or less for good; another, a mute martial artist, can convey her "voice" into other's minds – are rendered with a sense the author knows this material inside out. The Last Count of Monte Cristo (graph 2023) with Tristan Roach (see Alexandre Dumas), which is a Graphic Novel set in a distant Near Future Earth almost entirely drowned in the rising seas through Climate Change, recasts the original story to reflect Dumas's Black father's life as a general in Napoleon's army who is (almost certainly unjustly) imprisoned. [JC]
Ayize Jama-Everett
born New York: 1974
works
series
The Liminal People
- The Liminal People (Easthampton, Massachusetts: Small Beer Press, 2011) [Liminal People: pb/Adam S Doyle]
- The Liminal War (Easthampton, Massachusetts: Small Beer Press, 2015) [Liminal People: pb/Adam S Doyle]
- The Entropy of Bones (Easthampton, Massachusetts: Small Beer Press, 2015) [Liminal People: pb/John Jennings]
- Heroes of an Unknown World (Easthampton, Massachusetts: Small Beer Press, 2023) [Liminal People: pb/]
individual titles (selected)
- The Last Count of Monte Cristo (New York: Abrams ComicArts/Megascope, 2023) [graph: illus/hb/Tristan Roach]
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